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Scientific Institutions in Brazil
Pages 18-25

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From page 18...
... Some of the professional associations are: Associacao Brasileira de Antropologia c/o Manoel Diegues Junior, rua da Matriz, 92 Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Est. da Guanabara Sociedade Brasileira de Sociologia c/o Frank Goldman, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias, e Letras, Sao Paulo 18
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From page 19...
... , Rio de Janeiro, as its name would indicate, is an over-all coordinating agency for all the sciences. However, the CNP only partially includes the social sciences in its orbit of activities.
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From page 20...
... The Foundation is a possible source of research assistants. The Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica, which publishes and interprets census data, is of the utmost importance to the social sciences.
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... This is the Centro Latino Americano de Pesquisas em Ci&icias Sociais (The Latin American Center for Research in the Social Sciences) , which is the UNESCO Latin American research center.
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From page 22...
... Also in a state capital there may be an Instituto de Geografia e Historia, which is generally non-scientific in outlook, but frequently has a good library. Some of the best libraries in the social sciences to be found in Brazil are private libraries.
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From page 23...
... Also important is the Pontifica Universidade Catolica, and its newly created Escola de Sociologia e Politica do Instituto de Estudos Politicos e Sociais. This school offers a four-year course in the social sciences.
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From page 24...
... In summary, flowing out from Rio de Janeiro there is a strong current of applied anthropology and sociology, as well as economics. There is a certain concentration on the use of the social sciences for educational research and planning and for regional development.
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From page 25...
... These institutes frequently have excellent specialized libraries dealing with all aspects of the crop with which they are concerned, and also have a number of persons interested in the social sciences who have done spade work in the field. These institutes have their own statistics bureaus and some of them issue regular journals which carry information of value to the social scientist.
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